Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. There’s something almost ritualistically precise about the Hawaiian…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Snowflakes provide many of us with our earliest impressions of what it means to be unique. Even within a group—the flakes so numerous as to be seemingly uncountable—no two, we were…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Whatever’s new to me is new. If you’d asked me recently whether Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Breakfast of Champions,” from 1973, had been adapted for a movie, I’d have scoffed that anyone…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story I consumed the nineties Black horror films of my youth largely through my fingers, spreading them just wide enough, occasionally, to put a visual to some discomforting sound. The films—“Def by…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Hilton AlsStaff writer You’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your in-box. In 1971,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Not long ago, the American public could have been forgiven for thinking of Elon Musk’s vaunted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as a version of a familiar Republican cost-cutting, government-shrinking project.…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “The Last of the Nightingales.” For Bernie Krause, the sign of a healthy ecosystem is the sound it makes. The musician and Hollywood sound engineer is a pioneer of soundscape…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When Chantal Akerman’s “Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles”—proclaimed the best film of all time in Sight and Sound’s 2022 poll—premièred at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1975, Akerman…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The guys over at 15 Orient have been hitting a lot of home runs lately. Pardon the sports idiom: if you think of the art world as a competitive marketplace devoted…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story A sense of abasement hovers over the performer of the Super Bowl halftime show. It is slight, but it is there. The musician selected must be an internationally recognized star, and…